Vapers Digest 21st November

Parliamentary Matters – Experts Caution COP Delegates – Where are All the Smokers from the Gateway? – COP11: A Global Meeting With Full Focus on Missing the Target – Media Watch: Observer Sensemaker on Nicotine Pouches – COP 11 Awards Highlight the WHO’s Pious and Facile Nature – COP11 slams, rather than celebrates, Sweden’s smoke-free success – Will Sweden break its harm reduction promise at COP11? – Denmark accused of pushing through nicotine pouch ban at COP11 – NGOs’ “Dirty Ashtray” Award To New Zealand Exposes Deep Hypocrisy In Global Tobacco Control – Smoking Plateau Demands New Tools For SmokeFree Success – Asia Front and Centre: CAPHRA Powers Regional Voice at GoodCOP 2.0 – COP11: Day 3 No Updates – Doors are closing on  consumers & the public – A moment of reckoning for the WHO – COP Live Day Three #COP11 – COP Live Day Four #COP11 – People With COPD, Like My Husband, Are Being Failed – The WHO and FDA Are Stuck in a Cigarette-Era Mindset – Denmark is Trying to Ban Nicotine Pouches in Sweden – ‘Absolutely ludicrous’: Casey Costello defends plunge in global tobacco control ranking – Europe agreed not to ban safer nicotine products. Now Denmark wants to ban them anyway. – Smoking hits record lows in the U.S. and Nordics as vapes and nicotine pouches take over – COP Day 3 bulletin: GATC lies about harm reduction and quitting – NZ health minister commended for science-based vaping stance – Stanton Glantz claim vapes “increase harm” – but the science doesn’t back him up – Many Tobacco Control Organizations are Asserting that Quitting Smoking is Not Quitting Smoking if You Use E-Cigarettes to Quit – SPILLANE: Why America’s Tobacco Law Is Irreparably Broken and Costing Lives – After Years of Bad Policy, the FDA Might Finally Be Waking Up on Vaping – Disposable vapes ban: a lot of hot air or a slow-burn success? – Experts Criticize WHO for Ignoring Evidence on Safer Smoking Alternatives – Smoking rate reduces to 6.8 per cent – Opinion: The WHO wants nine times more money to control tobacco. Don’t pay! – Health minister plans major vape flavour ban to protect young people – The Moral Geography of Geneva – Vietnam’s E-Cigarette Ban Jeopardizes Millions of Lives – Good COP 2.0 – TPA’s Daily Download: Thursday, November 20 – TPA’s Good COP 2.0 (Day 3) –  TPA’s Good COP 2.0 (Day 4) – GOOD COP 2.0 | Day 3 of 5 | RegWatch (Live) – GOOD COP 2.0 | Day 4 of 5 | RegWatch (LIVE)